bony

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UK /ˈbəʊni/ US /ˈboʊni/

adj 4name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

all, difficult, enormous, fellow, hard, long

VERB + BONY

don't, find, fish, get, having, like

BONY + NOUN

ass, crest, crests, fillet, shell, shoulders

PREP.

on, out

ADV.

barely

Definitions

adj

Resembling, having the appearance or consistence of, or relating to bone; osseous.

Full of bones.

With little flesh; skinny, thin.

That bony fellow could use a few hot dinners.

Having prominent bones.

name

Initialism of Bank of New York.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adjective — having bones especially many or prominent bones

boney

adjective — being very thin

scraggy
scraggly
boney
scrawny
skinny
underweight
weedy

adjective — composed of or containing bone

osseous
osteal

Antonyms

boneless

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

That bony fellow could use a few hot dinners.

Wiktionary

This fish is bony and it is not easy to bone it.

Tatoeba · #59693

I ruin everything I get my bony hands on.

Tatoeba · #2939394

I don't like bony fish.

Tatoeba · #5185787

As its name suggests, the leatherback is the only sea turtle that doesn't have a hard bony shell.

Tatoeba · #6604233

Another reason many Americans avoid eating Asian carp is that it is bony, difficult to fillet and hard to sell in fresh fish markets.

Tatoeba · #7767374

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